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fiscal cliff, china slowed down, middle east energy crisis or some other risks. i think that belongs in a number of forums. while all our executives are giving answers, i want to ask each of you what is the risk the men and women in this room should be keeping them up at night right now? >> i think there are many ironies surrounding the fiscal cliff. the fiscal cliff in the short run is the most pressing thing. the biggest most threatening is the euro crisis and ultimately either the germans will have to subsidize permanently tooled it together or else the year autozone -- eurozone. let's get our hands around the correct number, which is if we sign a long-term grand bargain budget deal, we are going to be doing the fiscal cliff every year for the next ten years, okay? so the thing that is happening in the fiscal clef is made worse by the fact it's going to happen without a lot of preparation and it isn't fully thought through if it just kicks in. but we have got to do 4 trillion over ten years of its approximately 400 billion a year. this is a business we've chos
fiscal cliff, china slowed down, middle east energy crisis or some other risks. i think that belongs in a number of forums. while all our executives are giving answers, i want to ask each of you what is the risk the men and women in this room should be keeping them up at night right now? >> i think there are many ironies surrounding the fiscal cliff. the fiscal cliff in the short run is the most pressing thing. the biggest most threatening is the euro crisis and ultimately either the...
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energy and i couldn't put a whole series of things on the table. maybe implementation on the affordable care act. there are whole range of things one could do if you made a decision that we would benefit from learning from this election. >> a lot of these victorious senate candidates ran as far from barack obama as it was possible to do and still be in the same party. today just for fun, google or go to youtube and watch maybe the last ten ads north dakota. for the keystone pipeline, for increasing coal production, for drilling offshore for oil. for fixing obamacare. joe beat richard murdoch in yap. people were voting for keeping obamacare as is and for his spending agenda. it's not backed up by the data. joe is as pro-life, promarriage, and fiscallily conservative as you can be and be gnat party. look at the chairman of the dnc two years ago. he's running ads criticizing president obama on raising taxes on small business in virginia. so i just don't think it's going to wash to say it isn't a across the board reputuation where conservative have bee
energy and i couldn't put a whole series of things on the table. maybe implementation on the affordable care act. there are whole range of things one could do if you made a decision that we would benefit from learning from this election. >> a lot of these victorious senate candidates ran as far from barack obama as it was possible to do and still be in the same party. today just for fun, google or go to youtube and watch maybe the last ten ads north dakota. for the keystone pipeline, for...
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we could have tax reform and we could have energy legislation. but we haven't even had a defense bill or cybersecurity. joe lieberman is still trying to get a cybersecurity bill, which is really important in this country. but the president -- he is our leader. he needs to engage more than we have somebody here in the room that can talk to him. i am an incurable optimist. >> i share trent's optimism. we can't adopt the total bipartisan balanced budget agreement, but we can get started. we can have a real down payment, elise to cover the first year of what otherwise would be this cluster, which is $110 billion. and i think we can do some tax reform and some entitlement reform and pull it together. and then we can adopt a process that tries to push committees of the regular order to come out with enough savings and spending and enough new revenue as part of tax reform and long-term entitlement reform -- were not thought possible to do this and this lame-duck session -- one quick point. i usually watch fox news sunday, but i sometimes watch "meet the
we could have tax reform and we could have energy legislation. but we haven't even had a defense bill or cybersecurity. joe lieberman is still trying to get a cybersecurity bill, which is really important in this country. but the president -- he is our leader. he needs to engage more than we have somebody here in the room that can talk to him. i am an incurable optimist. >> i share trent's optimism. we can't adopt the total bipartisan balanced budget agreement, but we can get started. we...
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. >> coming up tonight, a house energy and commerce subcommittee hears testimony on the fungal meningitis outbreak linked to a massachusetts company. the defense department and holds a briefing on actions taken after an investigation into misconduct. at laflin air force base in san antonio. that is followed by an interview with outgoing house services member, congressman barney frank. today's of nonfiction books this weekend. your calls, e-mails, and tweets. many featured authors including jake tapper and christopher hitchens book, mortality. live coverage starts on saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on sunday at noon on c-span2's booktv. join us online
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as for disagreements, the one that immediately leaps to mind is energy. keystone pipeline. i think that was -- if you had to sum up, you know, the mitt romney energy agenda and the house and congressional republican energy agenda, it begins with the k word, keystone pipeline and look to see what happens on that one. sort of to use the old isaac as move analogy, we've got the irresistible force of energy consumption and the immovable opposition of co2 and global warming which, obviously, got a boost in the wake of hurricane sandy, and we'll just have to see what happens. another category was -- things that didn't get talked about, and i think that's very unfortunate, first on that list i would talk about health care defined as medicine, defined as curing things. we've had for, you know, since the clinton era we've had the abundant discussions of health care finance, health care insurance, who should get insured, who shouldn't get insured, so on and so on. and during the same 20-year period, the number of -- the quantity of medicine actually emerging from the medical/scientif
as for disagreements, the one that immediately leaps to mind is energy. keystone pipeline. i think that was -- if you had to sum up, you know, the mitt romney energy agenda and the house and congressional republican energy agenda, it begins with the k word, keystone pipeline and look to see what happens on that one. sort of to use the old isaac as move analogy, we've got the irresistible force of energy consumption and the immovable opposition of co2 and global warming which, obviously, got a...
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take a look at a place like oklahoma where energy state and you're supposed of conservatives are coming out in droves to vote against president obama. turnout looks to be down more than 5% and appears with almost all votes counted in oakland. a couple of wrong assumptions we made the overall this is a watershed election because with 84 house freshman in my count, 40 and democrats and 35 election. when you combine that with a few surviving members of the class of 2010, that's 166 members, more than one-third of the house will have less than three years of experience in congress takes office in january. so a huge new freshman class, very steep learning curve, and get ready for the fireworks. >> curtis. and again, you have, many of you have history port and the bbc's report on voter turnout. but tell us what happened and why spent the first and want to do is think dpc, and eric larson for making this report possible. wouldn't have been without them. i'm usually the chicken little of the analyst industry on the turnout, this time i was chicken little when it turned out to be right. which is
take a look at a place like oklahoma where energy state and you're supposed of conservatives are coming out in droves to vote against president obama. turnout looks to be down more than 5% and appears with almost all votes counted in oakland. a couple of wrong assumptions we made the overall this is a watershed election because with 84 house freshman in my count, 40 and democrats and 35 election. when you combine that with a few surviving members of the class of 2010, that's 166 members, more...
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campaign against romney with the firewall strategies, spending about half of preconvention dollars and energy on a free firewall states, florida, ohio and virginia. where the lowest percentage of states for barack obama. they have, though states together have 60 electoral votes. they were important. with him, obama would. a 332 electoral votes. without them he would have 272 which would mean only one other state would have tipped. there's not a likely candidate as you look down the percentages in this election, but it was nonetheless close. and i think this proved to be effective. he carried them he is currently carried florida by 46,000 votes, ohio by 107,000, and virginia by 100,000. those 253,000 vote margin are responsible for his big electoral vote margin. it's a classic example of a high risk strategy. the obama strategists are now going to be hailed with some appropriateness as brilliant for employing this strategy. faq numbers it turned out a little differently they might be excoriated, but the fact is that they succeeded. and i think when you compare movement of the target states and
campaign against romney with the firewall strategies, spending about half of preconvention dollars and energy on a free firewall states, florida, ohio and virginia. where the lowest percentage of states for barack obama. they have, though states together have 60 electoral votes. they were important. with him, obama would. a 332 electoral votes. without them he would have 272 which would mean only one other state would have tipped. there's not a likely candidate as you look down the percentages...